IT MAY be their first time to play lead roles on TV, much more to be paired with GMA’s Primetime Queen Marian Rivera-Dantes, but newest Kapuso heartthrob Matthias Rhoads and theater actor-comedian Jerald Napoles are ready to carve their names in the entertainment scene. While fans eagerly awaited Marian’s return to primetime after a three-year […]

BOOK lovers are in for a special treat today at Kevin Kwan’s book signing event by National Book Store at the Sky Wing of SM Seaside City Cebu. This will be the first time Kris Aquino, who has a role in the movie adaptation of Kwan’s bestselling first book, “Crazy Rich Asians” will be seen in a […]

A graduate from the Cebu Institute of Technoloy-University in Cebu City topped the August 2017 Mining Engineering Licensure Examination. Pompeii Subingsubing grabbed the top spot with a 90.90 percent rating. Other topnotchers are Phillip Morgia (2nd, 89.80 percent rating) of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Gelaine Cabria ( 3rd, 89.55 percent) of Bicol University-Legazpi, […]

Investigators of the Regional Commission on Human Rights (CHR-7) and Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak visited the Cebu City Jail Wednesday morning to investigate the alleged mauling of an inmate and last Tuesday evening’s noise barrage. Tumulak said City Jail Warden Arnel Peralta ordered his personnel to throw tear gas at the inmates to […]

NINE persons were arrested while P3 million worth of shabu were seized from their possession by police at a hotel in Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City last Monday evening. Chief Insp. Maria Macaangay, Kamputhaw police precinct chief, said the arrest came after the hotel’s keeper noticed that the smoke alarms in the hotel rooms were […]

IT’S Friday-night rush hour, and there’s a pain-in-the-neck traffic standing between you and a couple of drink with your friends. Five or six years ago, this would have been the grounds to call it a night and head home, but with the advent of ride-hailing apps, things start to get better and more convenient. […]

A MAN tried to jump off the rooftop of a shopping mall in Cebu City on Wednesday morning. PO2 Marion Gonzales of the Waterfront Police Office said Roberto Mimay, a 28-year-old native of Butuan City in Agusan del Norte province, tried to jump off the rooftop of Robinsons Galleria at the North Reclamation Area, Cebu […]

Nenita Cortes, 34, was resting inside her bedroom on Monday morning when her bed started to shake. She thought her dog, Coffee, moved her bed. Fear started to creep in when she saw Coffee near the door. Cortes immediately jumped off the bed and ran out of the house in Mandaue City, Cebu, scared that […]

AN earthquake measuring 5.4 in magnitude struck an area located nine kilometers southeast of Ormoc City, Leyte Monday morning. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said it recorded the temblor at 9:41 a.m. Areas which experienced the earthquake at intensity 5 were Ormoc City, while Mayorga town and Tacloban City in Leyte […]

A fire burned down a staff house and damaged a guest house in Espina Village, B. Rodriguez St. Cebu City at 1:14 Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters put out the fire at 2:06 pm. Senior Fire Officer Pier Abellana said a fan at the staff house of Atty. Jose Espilita overheated and burst into flames and spread […]